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Modern car heaters take longer to heat up?

Pretty much every single older car (lets say, pre 2000) I've driven the heater would start blowing warm air in less than 2 minutes in subfreezing temps. Usually I'd feel the air getting noticably warmer just driving around the block. In a few minutes, it's turn hot and I'd get comfortable quick.

I've had a 06 and 10 MB, and 10 Miata. The heaters in those were useless for short trips. I wouldn't get warm air in less than 10 minutes. My commute to work is 15 minutes. I'd be downright cold for the first 7-8 minutes, then get somewhat warmer... but only get finally hot and toasty when I was only about 2-3 minutes away from work. So most of the time I'd be freezing cold while driving because goddamn heaters take so long to warm up.

Right now I drive a beater 99' Subaru and this thing heats up almost instanteneously.

Anybody else noticed this or was this just case of particular cars I've had?

Even my TDI had some heat coming after 5 minutes or less (TDI's are notorious for weak heaters)... My BMW has heat within a minute, car is perfectly warm in about 5 or less. My dad's XC70 also gets hot quickly... both cars the heated seats make you pretty toasty in a few mins, feel good warmth in under 1 minute. I swear my BMW's seat heaters take the edge off of the cold seat in about 10 seconds or less.

Your cars are broken or you don't know how to set up the heater... can't turn the fan on full blast and expect heat. For the first minute you should only run the fan at low speed, then after a minute or two turn it up... need to let heat build up in the heater core before you really crank the fan. A bit of warmth will come out when the fan is low. Watch an auto-climate system work, this is how it control the heaters too.

My heated seats and the auxiliary electric heater do a good job keeping me warm for 2-4 minutes before the engine gets warm. Can't tell you how it would cope at really low temperatures below freezing, though.

After incessant complaints from a to z, I am now calling all of my characters "special."

09 GTI definitely takes more than 5 mins to warm up... and on a very cold days, the temperature would even go down while standing at red lights. I guess that's mainly because of the iron engine block in a comparison to aluminum.

"As anyone who has ever tinkered with an old BMW engine or looked out on to the wing of a jet can attest, pure response to engineering requirements can sometimes deliver just as much pleasure as a more intentionally aesthetic design process."

Newer cars have electric heaters that blow hot air almost immediately.

True story. I told my wife to use the remove starter on the Sonic when parked outside and give it a couple of minutes for the engine to warm up. She told me there was no need, even when cold the car would blow heat.